Excluding Oracle, whose server business (essentially Sun) continues to hemorrhage, the third quarter saw server shipments and average selling price of servers continue to soar across the board. The latest numbers from Gartner painted a rosy picture for server vendors, with global shipments up 14.2 percent year-over-year, while revenues were up 15.3 percent. IDC was a shade more Grinch-like, reporting a 13.2 percent revenue increase, to $ 11.8 billion, on a 13.1 percent increase in shipments.
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